[Catalyst] OT: YUI v Ext JS

[Ashley]

Thanks everyone for the info. Turns out the distinction I was drawing  
was somewhat
spurious. There is not built-in store update for the Ext JS grid  
either, you have to
apply your own. Just the Ext JS docs are better and the Cat tutorial  
made it seem
so easy. :) [Though there are a few typos in it, code and English,  
and the trailing
commas in the JS will break "some" parsers; if I have time, I'll send  
an errata].

I'm gonna hoe the row in YUI and apply pieces of Ext JS, I hope, down  
the road
when everything is running.

On Jan 27, 2008, at 7:03 AM, J. Shirley wrote:

> On Jan 25, 2008 6:14 PM, Ashley <apv at sedition.com> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2008, at 6:07 PM, Peter Karman wrote:
> > Ashley wrote on 1/25/08 6:44 PM:
> >> * Does Ext JS's grid have all the same goodies as YUI's DataTable?
> >
> > I haven't used Ext yet. But have you looked at:
> > http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/datatable/ 
> dt_cellediting.html
> > ?
>
> Yes. Unless I'm missing something those changes are purely client-
> side. It took *a lot* of searching to discover someone asking on a
> YUI list the same basic question about server-side data updates and
> being told, you have to update your own data store however you feel
> like.
>
> >> * Is Ext JS completely stable across IE, FF, and Safari (Opera is
> >> sort of out of scope for this).
> >> * Do YUI's considerable other offerings (I'm looking for a site-
> >> wide library, not just grids) outweigh the positive aspects of Ext
> >> JS?
> >> * Would anyone, knowing *both*, pick YUI over Ext JS?
> >
> > I have used the YUI history manager to good effect (see http://
> > catalyst.perl.org/calendar/2007/7) so if Ext had some widget I
> > really wanted, I would just use both together.
>
>
> This is good advice. My only dilemma in the choosing for this part of
> the app is that the manager might say, WTF? I thought we were gonna
> use YUI? :)
>
>
> Really use ExtJS's Grid.  In the current form YUI's DataTable just  
> isn't going to cut it and you won't be happy with it.  It's getting  
> attention from the YUI team, but it won't be for several more  
> releases that it starts to reach the base feature level that ExtJS  
> has built-in.
>
> Keep in mind that ExtJS can use the YUI adapter, and then you just  
> have to build the Grid component JS so you don't need the entire  
> (massive) JS kit if you just want the Grid.  Then your manager is  
> just told it is a YUI-based widget :)
>
> -J
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